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Véronique Tadjo is a writer, academic, artist and author of books for young people. Born in Paris, she grew up in Abidjan (Côte d´Ivoire) where she attended local schools. She earned a B.A. in English from the University of Abidjan and a doctorate from the Sorbonne, Paris IV, in African American Literature and Civilization. In 1983, she went to Howard University in Washington, D.C. on a Fulbright research scholarship. In 1979, she chose to teach English at the Lycée Moderne de Korhogo (secondary school) in the North of Côte d´Ivoire. She subsequently became a lecturer at the English department of the University of Abidjan until 1993 when she took up writing full time. She began writing and illustrating books for children in 1988 with her first book Lord of the Dance, an African retelling. She was prompted by the desire to contribute to the emergence of literature for children in Africa. Her second book, Mamy Wata and the Monster won the Unicef Award in 1993 and has been published into 8 dual language editions. It is also on the list of the 100 Best African Books of the Century. In the past few years, she has facilitated workshops in writing and illustrating children´s books in Mali, the Benin Republic, Chad, Haiti, Mauritius, French Guyana, Burundi, Rwanda and South
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Tadjo’s Take on Literary Transnationalism
1Transnational exchanges and influences multiply according to the degree of interconnection between people and the decline of the idea of sealed borders. The history of peoples’ movements and migrations show an acceleration of the process. Although the concept of “transnationalism” has first captured the interest of social scientists, it continues to gain the attention of many academics around the world in different disciplines and fields of research. As Roger Waldinger and David Fitzgerald (2004: 1177) explain, many scientists “[…] are looking for new ways to think about the connections between ‘here’ and ‘there,’ as evidenced by the interest in the many things called transnational.” For Antje Ziethen (2015: 108), the notion of transnationalism does not mean the disappearance of nations but an “extension, […] dilatation et […] flexibilité” of these. According to Leon de Kock (2011: 22) any “transnational turn” testifies to a desire “to step beyond the enclosure of the ‘national’.” African literary transnationalism gained momentum when African writers began to emigrate by obligation or desire. For Véronique Tadjo, literary transnationalism is a means of witnessing and alerting to important African issues. As Marie-Emmanuelle Pomme